Monday, July 24, 2006

Even with 2 or 3 wars going on in the Middle East and a major power outage in Queens, you can still count on FishWatch to read Sunday Styles....

I am sure you all caught the article in the Sunday Styles section about arts organizations courting summer associates to start the ball rolling on arts patronage. My favorite comment was by far the following:

Its another thing to keep summer associates happy to defray the reality of how miserable their lives are going to be, said Cameron Stracher, a professor at New York Law School and author of Double Billing: A Young Lawyers Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair (William Morrow, 1998). He suspects most of their patronage of the arts will consist of writing checks. Its like the sublimation of their true desires, he said.

I laughed at first, really hard...but then thought of that coffee date I had with my voice teacher about a week before my F.U. deposit was due. "Don't do it," she said. "You should be auditioning. Musicals are more fun than Law School. Musicals are like summer camp. Law School...well...isn't."

I disagree. Law School is like summer camp, only it's that CTY camp my parents tried to get me to go to. Yes, you know that camp...the one for which the Indian and Korean kids in your 8th grade class took the SATs to get in.

I apologize for implying that a Harvard JD, law prof could ever be cynical, or an asshole. I know now that I was wrong, and will spend the rest of my life drawing smiley faces on city sidewalks, and petting stray puppies in an unrealistic attempt to shed my ingrained 1L cynicism. Perhaps Cameron and I can one day meet so that I can hear all about the dance troupe he founded.